You are not alone Liz. I was adopted by a wonderful man, who married my Mom in 1967. There are three of us girls and we are all adopted. He had one brother, who died last year with no children and a sister, who died at age 16. I would venture to say that line is "dead" as well. His Dad had a brother and two sisters. The brother had a son, who only has daughters, so the entire male line from my Grandfather (adopted) will not go on. As well, my Grandfather had only one brother and two sisters. His brother had a son, who only has daughters, so that line will also be "dead" from the male side. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Liz Phillips via Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 3:25 AM To: Derek Bandy <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [G] DNA conclusions? I thought my direct line was fairly healthy until I thought about it, half brother (different father), who has two daughters and one son, so only has three daughter's, girls obviously different surnames, but one had four daughters anyway and the other only one son. Male cousin who has no children, uncle with only one girl! So, this family line is now dead! best wishes, from another girl of the only girl! Liz On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Derek Bandy via <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't forget over extended periods of time many DNA lines simply die > out, people with no children, no male children (y-dna). It doesn't > have to be natural disasters or massacres. There was a study on it > some time ago but I have lost the details. > > with kind regards > Derek Bandy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of JANETHESKI via > Sent: 27 April 2016 12:00 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [G] DNA conclusions? > > And the Black Death... > > And the plague of 1665... > > Janet [2281] > > > > In a message dated 27/04/2016 11:58:02 GMT Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > Well, the last ice age would have killed many but even so ... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Christopher Gray via > Sent: 2016 April 27 08:19 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [G] DNA conclusions? > > A recent claim in the UK's Daily Telegraph - as pointed to by today's > "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter" - was that half of today's > European men are descended from a single man who lived some 4,000 > years ago. > Leaving > aside what happened to all the boys descended from the many thousands > of other men alive at that time - let alone this man's close > relations (mass > genocide?) - how can people make such sweeping generalisations based > on the DNA of just 1,200 people? I could better understand if the > study was of a few million people. > > The same goes for this "Eve" person we are all meant to be descended from. > Was she the only female alive at the time? Did she wonder around > Africa killing off all the others? > > Chris > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have six siblings (four brothers, two sisters) and both the yDNA and mtDNA lines will go extinct (unless one of my daughters has a daughter). My father was the only grandson of my great grandfather Blake carrying this Blake yDNA and so it goes back another generation. My yDNA Pincombe (mother's line) went extinct when my uncle died without issue. I do have a lot of 3rd male cousins though who carry this signature. The Blake yDNA though is interesting as it has survived from at least the early 1400s and there was one incidence of three only children in the 1700s one after the other thus reducing the number of descendants of the earlier group quite drastically. They, other than a few exceptions, tended towards smaller families anyway. There are, however, a number of 5th cousins Blake of mine who still live in the Andover area (my Blake grandfather was born at Upper Clatford but just three generations back from him this Blake line was at Andover and before that Knights Enham). Elizabeth (Blake) Kipp BA PLCGS Website: http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/elizabethmain.htm Blog: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/ Guild of One Name Studies #4600 (Blake, Pincombe) The Surname Society #1004 (Bedard, Dumoulin, Gregoire, Prevost, Blake, Pincombe, Knight, Rawlings, Cheatle, Butt, Buller, Taylor, Gray, Farmer, Lywood, Rew, Routledge, Welch, Coleman, Lambden, Arnold, Peck, Rowcliffe, Siderfin, Cobb, Beard) On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Derek Bandy via <[email protected]> wrote: Don't forget over extended periods of time many DNA lines simply die out, people with no children, no male children (y-dna). It doesn't have to be natural disasters or massacres. There was a study on it some time ago but I have lost the details.